Spokane7
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July 17, 2009 in Business, Idaho
Adjustments to raise Avista rates in Idaho slightly
The Spokesman-Review
A collection of four rate adjustments will have Idaho customers of Avista Utilities paying an average of 1.5 percent more per month for electricity and 1.2 percent more for natural gas this fall, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced Friday.
Two of the adjustments will increase rates and two will lower them, resulting in the final numbers. The adjustments are effective Aug. 1.
The average residential electric customer, using about 1,000 kilowatt hours per month, will see their monthly electric bill rise by 98 cents, to $80.90, the commission said in a news release. The average gas customer who uses 65 therms per month will see their monthly bill rise by 91 cents, to $73.88.
Let the ketchup flow freely 
greyhound2 on July 20 at 7:42 a.m.
Avista is a private public utility monopoly which can not be trusted. Avista needs to be nationalized and its Commisioners elected rather than appointed.
Avista is showing record profits for the benefit of its stockholders on Wall Street and the benefit of overpaid top executives who run a monopoly. They run a company which can not be allowed to fail even due to their own gross mismanagement and ratepayers are stuck as their is no alternative available.